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Notes: Prices are in nominal dollars. Gas volumes delivered for use as vehicle fuel are included in the State annual totals through 2009 but not in the State monthly components. Through 2001, electric power price data are for regulated electric utilities only; beginning in 2002, data also include nonregulated members of the electric power sector. Gas volumes delivered for use as vehicle fuel are included in the State annual totals through 2009 but not in the State monthly components. Estimates of gas volumes delivered for use as vehicle fuel are included in the State monthly totals for January 2010 forward. Preliminary electric power data for 2016 are shown as of the September 2017 Electric Power Monthly. They will not reflect revisions made in the 2016 Electric Power Annual, which was published after the 2016 Natural Gas Annual was released. Revised electric power data for 2016 will not be adjusted in the Natural Gas Monthly until the 2017 Natural Gas Annual is published.  See Definitions, Sources, and Notes link above for more information on this table.
Release Date: 2/28/2023
Next Release Date: 3/31/2023

City Gate, Residential, Industrial Prices: Form EIA-857, "Monthly Report of Natural Gas Purchases and Deliveries to Consumers"; Form EIA-910, "Monthly Natural Gas Marketer Survey." . 

Commercial Price: Form EIA-857, "Monthly Report of Natural Gas Purchases and Deliveries to Consumers"; Form EIA-910, "Monthly Natural Gas Marketer Survey." ; Form EIA-910, "Monthly Natural Gas Marketer Survey" 

Electric Utilities: 1967-1977: Federal Power Commission (FPC). 1978-2001: Form EIA-759, "Monthly Power Plant Report" ; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Form-423, "Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants Report" ; Form EIA-176, "Annual Report of Natural and Supplemental Gas Supply and Disposition" ; Form EIA-910, "Monthly Natural Gas Marketer Survey" 

Electric Power: 2002-2006: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Form-423, "Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants Report" ; Form EIA-423, "Monthly Cost and Quality of Fuels for Electric Plants Report" ; 2007-current, data previously collected on Form EIA-423 and FERC Form 423 are now collected on Form EIA-923, “Power Plant Operations Report.” 

All other data: 1967-1975: Bureau of Mines, Minerals Yearbook, "Natural Gas" chapter. 1976-1978: EIA, Energy Data Report, Natural Gas Annual. 1979: EIA, Natural Gas Production and Consumption, 1979. 1980-present: Form EIA-176, "Annual Report of Natural and Supplemental Gas Supply and Disposition" 

Key Terms	Definition
Citygate	A point or measuring station at which a distributing gas utility receives gas from a natural gas pipeline company or transmission system.
Commercial Price	The price of gas used by nonmanufacturing establishments or agencies primarily engaged in the sale of goods or services such as hotels, restaurants, wholesale and retail stores and other service enterprises; and gas used by local, State and Federal agencies engaged in nonmanufacturing activities.
Electric Power Price	The price of gas used by electricity generators (regulated utilities and non-regulated power producers) whose line of business is the generation of power.
Exports	Natural Gas deliveries out of the Continental United States and Alaska to foreign countries.
Imports	Natural Gas received in the Continental United States (including Alaska) from a foreign country.
Industrial Price	The price of natural gas used for heat, power, or chemical feedstock by manufacturing establishments or those engaged in mining or other mineral extraction as well as consumers in agriculture, forestry, fisheries and construction.
Nominal Price	The price paid for a product or service at the time of the transaction. Nominal prices are those that have not been adjusted to remove the effect of changes in the purchasing power of the dollar; they reflect buying power in the year in which the transaction occurred.
Residential Price	The price of gas used in private dwellings, including apartments, for heating, cooking, water heating, and other household uses.
Wellhead Price	Price of natural gas calculated by dividing the total reported value at the wellhead by the total quantity produced as reported by the appropriate agencies of individual producing States and the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement. The price includes all costs prior to shipment from the lease, including gathering and compression costs, in addition to State production, severance, and similar charges.

The Wellhead Price estimate has been discontinued as of January 2013.